Fri, September 17, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. Speaker: Dr. Stephen Palumbi
Jane and Marshall Steel, Jr. Professor of Marine Biology
Stanford University
As oceans warm, generate more storms and become more acidified, ocean species can respond in a set of fundamental ways: move, acclimate, adapt or die. How well can ocean species adapt to climate, and what mechanisms are likely to help or hinder it? We will explore ways adaptation speeds up and slows down. On one hand, wide-spread phenotypic variation for heat resistance in corals can help rapid future adaptation. On the other hand, tradeoffs between heat resistance and other critical traits such as growth, mediated by symbiont density, might slow down the evolution of high heat resistance. Other mechanisms that affect adaptation such as super-genes in cod and crabs and minnows also change the trajectory of adaptive capacity in ocean species.
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